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From the Editor: My Indianapolis: A Photo Essay Our Editor-In-Chief, Natalie Solmer, introduces this epic Indianapolis issue and shares a photo essay of her Speedway neighborhood.

Featured Poet: Karen Kovacik talks to The Indianapolis Review about falling in love with poetry and translation, her Polish heritage and the current state of Polish poetry, as well as the best spot in Indianapolis for kayaking during the full moon. She also shares three new poems below:
Anatomy of a Dress For Zbigniew Herbert

Michael Begnal Palindrome: A Torpor / A Torrent
Peter Bethanis In Praise of The Professionals
David Blomenberg Julia
Nicole Brooks The Third Man

25.5″ x 27″
Oil, Acrylic, Marking Pens on Wood
Malachi Carter Downtown, Anywhere
Nancy Chen Long I: Mothra 2: Mirror, Mirror
Curtis Crisler The Last Poem of the World
Chris Forhan To a Goldfinch in April

24″ x 20″
4-19
latex & enamel paints on canvas
Featured Artist: Hector René Del Campo

Featured Poet: Alyssa Gaines: 2019 Youth Poet Laureate of Indianapolis
Tongue-Tied love letter to the east side #BlackLivesMatter
Madison Gonzalez The Pit
Steve Henn Loss, or One for Josh Wildman
Cynthia Hibbler Living in the Middle

Allyson Horton feeling miscellaneous
Lucas Jacob In Case of Fire, Break
Abby Johnson Examination in Monument Circle
Jeana Jorgensen Numbering

George Kalamaras
Driving All Night from Here to There, Which Is Reallly Here to Here, Listening to Talk Radio
JL Kato The Cutting Room
Nasreen Khan Looking for a decent taco,
Elizabeth Krajeck Fractures

16″ x 20″ ; Acrylic and Charcoal
Featured Artist: Gerburg Garmann
Norbert Krapf Indianapolis Elegy
John Leo Eight Lies
Nate Logan Palm Beach State College Stairwell is How I Heard this Song
Alessandra Lynch At the Bar IRIS

Acrylic on canvas 36″ x 36″
Ashley Mack-Jackson Tootsie’s Cabaret Olivia/Pauline
Chantel Massey
Meg Matthias reenactment
Dheepa Maturi Iphigenia

acrylic on 24″ x 18″ canvas panel
Featured Artist: Moumita Mukherjee
Bonnie Maurer Betty in the Garden Talks to God
Norman Minnick Apple Fest
Robert Okaji My Mother’s Ghost Scrubs the Floor at 2:00 am
Omowalé-Kétu Oladuwa poetic moment

Danielle Perez art school pervasiveness
Brianna Pike I Am Thinking About Love
Abby Radcliffe Haunted Places Things Grow Up and Out
Dana Roeser All Flakes Are Not Equal Tablecloth, Turn Outside In

oils on wood 11″ by 14″
Rachel Sahaidachny It Cannot Be Called Ambition
Elysia Lucinda Smith Open To It People I Have Slept With
Manon Voice To all survivors
Damaris H. Zehner A Californian Visits Indianapolis
